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Belt / 1931 season / Reign #67 · Game 549 of 1,637
November 29, 1931 Week 12 · Regular Season Belt changed hands

San Diego Marines takes the belt, 7–0, at home over Loyola Marymount.

Home · New Holder
San Diego Marines 7
AT
Away · Defending Holder
Loyola Marymount 0
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

San Diego Marines took the belt here, ending Loyola Marymount’s run of 8 days and 0 defenses (reign #66) and starting reign #67. It lasted 300 days and 2 defenses, until Fresno State took it on September 24, 1932.

For San Diego Marines this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.

This is the only time Loyola Marymount and San Diego Marines have met with the belt on the line.

Historical Note

About this game

San Diego Marines defeated Loyola Marymount 7-0 on November 29, 1931, in week 12 of the regular season. With this victory, San Diego Marines claimed the College Football Belt from Loyola Marymount.

Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.

Sources "Marines Upset Loyola," Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30, 1931, p. 9 · 1931 San Diego Marines Devil Dogs football team (Wikipedia) · 1931 Loyola Lions football team (Wikipedia) · Added by hand: not in College Football Data · This game in the downloadable dataset